Fairfield County cos. land on LGBT index

By Alexander Soule

Published 1:34 pm, Thursday, November 19, 2015

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide was among nine Connecticut-based employers to receive a perfect score on an index designed to measure the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in organizations, with Starwood (NYSE: HOT) the largest corporate employer in Stamford.

Other getting perfect scores on the index published by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation included Fairfield-based General Electric (NYSE: GE); Ridgefield-based Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals; and Xerox (NYSE: XRX), Diageo North America (NYSE: DGO) and FactSet Research Systems (NYSE: FDS), all based in Norwalk.

In all, 15 Connecticut companies were ranked of some 850 nationally. Marriott International (Nasdaq: MAR), which this week announced plans to acquire Starwood for $12.2 billion, also received a perfect score among a dozen hospitality companies to do so.